The gender income gap has received renewed attention recently following the team’s win in Sunday's World Cup final, as several teammates pointed out that they would be paid less than the men’s team for winning the prominent tournament.

According to unsurfaced documents, each player on the U.S. women's national team could receive about $260,000 in maximum earnings for winning the Women's World Cup, while each player on the U.S. men's national team could have earned nearly $1 million if their team had won the tournament.

“Wouldn’t it be great if we could pass that bill while the Women’s National Team was visiting this chamber? Wouldn’t that send a powerful message of our commitment to rooting out discrimination everywhere? I urge Leader McConnell to consider it. Right now that bill lays in Leader McConnell’s all-too-full legislative graveyard. Perhaps this great victory might spring it free so that we can do something for women’s equality,” Schumer said in a statement.

McConnell joined other lawmakers in congratulating the team on its victory Sunday:

Congratulations to the @USWNT and thanks for giving Americans yet another reason to be proud over the Fourth of July weekend by bringing home the World Cup. The Senate sends our congratulations for your grit, teamwork, and talent.